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Kacy Ray and Fric Simpson, two 20-year old Miami Springs residents who drove thirty hours and spent $230 to see the brief ceremony including a $90 speeding ticket and a $60 cam-corder battery, were even more enthusiastic...
Crutcher bases the protagonist of the novel, Wilson Corder, upon himself. Corder is a child therapist who attempts to decipher what has happened to abused children by talking with them. He gets them to cooperate by using a controversial examination method called play therapy--he has children act out their trauma through toys...
...Corder's first client is four year-old Jerry Parker, who Wilson suspects knows some secret about the recent kidnapping of the boy's sister. When the play therapy comes close to revealing a name. Corder receives threats to leave the case alone. The plot seems prosaic until the first threat--the crucifixion of Corder's cat on his door--is carried out. The perpetrator of this violence keeps the reader guessing what his next move will...
...play therapy, Corder discovers all kinds of juicy information and ends up playing the role of the third-party-who-knows-a-deadly-secret-so-he-has-to -be- killed role. Now both Wilson's colleague and Dr. Banner posses the motive to kill Corder and they put pressure on the therapist to abandon his cases. Eventually Corder succumbs to their requests, but only after the killer attacks his daughter and then sets his house afire...
...book's most suspenseful moment occurs when Dr. Banner's henchman takes Corder's family hostage aboard a boat somewhere on a river in Oregon. Fortunately. Corder was a champion long-distance swimmer in college--hence, the title. By this point, it is clear that crutcher's talent does not lie in developing plot--it would have been more believable had his family been taken hostage in their home and Corder had been a commando in the military than to have him swim across large bodies of water...